I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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